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Does the thought of decorating a cake freak you out?
Put your frosting fears aside this Halloween and get creative in the kitchen with your kids by whipping up one of these easy holiday cakes. Jeanne Benedict of Celebrations.com has all the tips you’ll need to craft a spook-tacular cake with your kids, and without over-complicating the process. Soon, it’ll become a family tradition!
Cake Baking Tips:
You can pick up a frosted cake from your local bakery or grocery store and decorate it, or use these tips if you are baking it at home:
- Use cake flour, not all-purpose flour. Cake flour is lighter and you’ll be able to tell the difference in the cake’s texture.
- Make sure your baking soda or baking powder is fresh.
- Grease your cake pans and then line the bottom with wax paper. Grease over the wax paper and then dust the bottom and sides of the pan with flour. This method will help your cake pop out of the pan with ease.
- Place cake pans on the center rack, unless the instructions suggest otherwise, so the cake pans will have an even flow of hot air surrounding them during the baking process.
5 Easy Ways to Decorate a Halloween Cake With Your Kids:
Chocolate M&M And Orange Frosted Cake
Ice a round layer cake or a Bundt cake with orange frosting.
Dot the cake with chocolate M&Ms as decorations.
Pumpkin Patch Cake
- Ice a rectangular cake with green frosting.
- Make 3D grass by putting some green frosting into a pastry bag fitted with a round tip and pipe grass blades.
- Decorate the cake with pumpkin marshmallow toppers.
Spider Web Cake
- Ice a round cake with chocolate frosting.
- Put white decorator icing into a pastry bag fitted with a wide writing tip or a plastic needle nose bottle.
- Pipe a spider web on the top of the cake.
Silly Ghost Cake
- Ice a round layer cake with white frosting.
- Toss fun Halloween sprinkles on top.
- Add a few ghost bobbling toppers for a silly spooky cake!
Halloween Chocolate Lollipop Cake
- Make a variety of Halloween lollipops using colored melting chocolates and a Halloween lollipop mold.
- Ice a round layer cake with chocolate, green or orange frosting
- Insert the lollipops into the top of the cake for a sweet parade of characters.
Looking for more Halloween treats? Visit Celebrations.com for recipes.
Image credit: Celebrations.com.
